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        <title>3 killed, at least 39 hurt in Chicago weekend shootings, CPD data says</title>
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                      <![CDATA[ <p>Three people were killed and at least 41 people were hurt in Chicago weekend shootings, according to the police department.</p><p>Chicago police said between 6 p.m. Friday and 11:59 p.m. Sunday, there were 22 shootings in which 41 people were shot, and three of those people were killed.&nbsp;</p><p>CBS News Chicago counted 42 shooting victims over the weekend in 23 incidents, including a fifth victim later identified as being injured in the <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/search-continues-mass-shooting-chicago-washington-park/" target="_blank">Washington Park mass shooting</a></span> Saturday night.&nbsp;</p><p>The ages of the victims range from 15 to 73, according to Chicago police.</p><h2>Shootings from Friday</h2><p>The first shooting of the weekend happened just before 7 p.m. in the 3700 block of West Chicago Avenue. That's where police say a 26-year-old man was near a commercial business when he was approached by an unknown vehicle, and multiple occupants from within pulled out guns and fired shots at him. </p><p>The victim was shot in the abdomen and was taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital in good condition.</p><p>Then just before 8 p.m., a 28-year-old man was shot in the right shoulder in the 4500 block of West North Avenue. </p><p>According to CPD, the victim was outside when he heard a loud noise, felt pain, and realized he had suffered a gunshot wound. The victim was treated on scene by fire crews and taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital in fair condition.</p><p>CPD said the victim told officers that he believed the shots were fired from an apartment. SWAT was notified and responded to the scene, which was later cleared the scene without incident. </p><p>No arrests were made and no other injuries were reported.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>In other shootings from 5 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday:</strong></p><h2>Shootings from Saturday</h2><ul><li>At 1:12 a.m. in the 3800 block of South Western Avenue, an 18-year-old man was exiting a vehicle when he heard gunshots and felt pain. The victim was hit in the left elbow and self-transported to Holy Cross Hospital. He was later taken to Mt. Sinai in fair condition.</li><li>At 1:27 a.m. in the 1600 block of South Morgan Street, a 26-year-old man was found outside with a gunshot wound to his left thigh. The victim was taken to Stroger Hospital in fair condition. The victim was uncooperative with responding officers.</li><li>At 3:02 a.m. in the 2400 block of South Trumbull Avenue, a 17-year-old boy self-transported to Mt. Sinai Hospital after being shot in the Left foot, in good condition. He was uncooperative in providing details of the incident to responding officers.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>At 3:50 a.m. in the 1100 block of West Wrightwood Avenue, a 33-year-old woman was a passenger inside a traveling vehicle when she heard shots and felt pain. She suffered one gunshot wound to the right foot and was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital in fair condition.</li><li>At 11:20 a.m. in the 7100 block of South Jeffery Boulevard, a 23-year-old man self-transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center in good condition with a gunshot wound to the body. A 73-year-old man was found on the scene with a gunshot wound to the rear. The victim was also taken to U of C in critical condition.</li><li>At 2:20 p.m. in the 2600 block of West 63rd Street, officers responded and found a 53-year-old man with a gunshot wound in the chest and arm. The victim was taken to the University of Chicago Hospital in critical condition.</li><li>At 7:55 p.m., a 29-year-old man was near the sidewalk in the 700 block of North Ridgeway Avenue when he was struck in the buttocks by gunfire. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition.</li><li>At 8:33 p.m., a 15-year-old boy was outside in the 5200 block of West Augusta Boulevard when a dark-colored sport-utility vehicle rolled past and someone inside shot him. The victim was shot in the chest and was taken to Stroger Hospital of Cook County, where he later died.</li><li>At 9:20 p.m., two men &mdash; one 36 years old and the other of an unspecified age &mdash; were outside in the 1100 block of West 63rd Street when a vehicle rolled past and someone inside opened fire at the men. The 36-year-old man was shot in the right thigh, while the other man was shot in the back. Both were taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in good condition.</li><li>At 10:11 p.m., a 22-year-old man was driving in the 4200 block of West 25th Place when he pulled up to a traffic signal and a man ran up and shot at his car. The victim was shot in the back and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in fair condition.</li><li>&nbsp;At 11:23 p.m., three people were shot while standing outside during a gathering in the <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/1-killed-2-wounded-shooting-chicago-bronzeville/" target="_blank">first block of East 37th Street</a></span>. A 32-year-old man suffered gunshot wounds throughout his body and was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. A 31-year-old man was also shot throughout his body and was taken to the same hospital in good condition. A 23-year-old woman was shot in the right hand and was taken to the U of C Medical Center in good condition.<br></li><li>At 11:37 p.m., a mass shooting in Washington Park near the <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/1-killed-9-wounded-in-mass-shooting-in-chicagos-washington-park/" target="_blank">5400 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue</a></span> left a man dead and 14 people wounded. People were gathered in the park, and officers were trying to disperse the crowd, when unknown people began shooting. A 35-year-old man suffered multiple gunshot wounds throughout his body and was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he died. The surviving victims included men ages 23, 34, 35, 39, and 42, and women ages 21, 23, 26, 37, 40, 43, 44, 45, and 47.</li></ul><h2>Shootings from Sunday</h2><ul><li>At 12:35 a.m., a 20-year-old man was found outside in the 9100 block of South Princeton Avenue with a gunshot wound to his left leg. He was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in fair condition.</li><li>At 1:31 a.m., a 31-year-old man self-transported to Roseland Community Hospital with a gunshot wound to his left leg, which he suffered in the 11600 block of South Aberdeen Street. He was in fair condition and was uncooperative with police.</li><li>At 2:15 a.m., a 33-year-old man was found in the 8000 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue with a gunshot wound to his back. He was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in good condition.</li><li>At 2:17 a.m., two men self-transported to Roseland Community Hospital after being shot in the 1000 block of West 116th Street. A 31-year-old man suffered a graze wound to the face, while a 33-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound to the shoulder. Both were in good condition.</li><li>At 3:30 a.m., a 35-year-old man was outside in the 3100 block of South Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. when another man came up with a gun and shot him once in the leg. The victim was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in fair condition.</li><li>At 7:15 a.m., a 32-year-old man was outside in the 5600 block of South Wolcott Avenue when he heard shots and felt pain. He was shot once in the leg and was taken to Holy Cross Hospital in good condition.</li><li>At 6:47 p.m., officers were called to Stroger Hospital of Cook County, where they met 26-year-old man who was shot in the abdomen at a different location and self-transported to the hospital. The man was reported in critical condition.</li><li>At 7:39 p.m., a 33-year-old man told police another man approached him and forced him at gunpoint into a residence in the 3600 block of North Pine Grove Avenue, then shot him in the neck. The victim was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in serious condition.</li><li>At 7:43 p.m., a 17-year-old boy was shot multiple times in the legs in the 4100 block of West Wilcox Street. He was listed in fair condition at Stroger Hospital of Cook County.</li></ul><p>Unless otherwise noted, no arrests were made in the above shootings.</p>

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        <title>John Galliano&#039;s Met Gala exhibit canceled amid backlash over antisemitic remarks</title>
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                      <![CDATA[ <p>Designer John Galliano and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City say the <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/2027-met-gala-john-galliano-controversy/" target="_blank">planned exhibition</a></span> highlighting his work in conjunction with the 2027 Met Gala will not be going forward, following weeks of backlash.</p><p>The British designer said in a <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DctHgVHtnCb?hl=en">social media post</a> on Monday that after "much reflection and discussion, with all those involved, I've decided, with great sadness, that it is best for the exhibition not to take place at this time." The Met confirmed in a statement that the "Spring 2027 exhibition devoted to his four-decade oeuvre will not proceed as planned."</p><p>The decision to highlight the work by Galliano, who is known for his theatrical and dramatic designs, sparked widespread controversy earlier this month due to his history of antisemitic and racist comments. Those remarks, in 2010 and 2011, led to his dismissal from Christian Dior in 2011 and a hate crime conviction in France.</p><p>"I remain fully accountable for the pain caused by my words in the past, particularly the hurt I caused to the Jewish and Asian communities, and I remain deeply sorry," Galliano said in his statement on Monday.</p><p>Met Gala chair Anna Wintour, the longtime Vogue editor-in-chief and chief content officer at Cond&eacute; Nast, called Galliano's decision "very courageous and a measure of the man he is."</p><p>"I believe this is the right decision, and both he and the Museum have my full support," she said.</p><figure class="embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-feed_phone_image" data-ads='{"extraWordCount":50}'><span class="img embed__content "><img src="https://assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/08/31/0f9d1f7e-887f-435c-9ce8-0138ba8a475a/thumbnail/620x413g2/7fa2352a98c5e7a52d17b9d0b6fbf2eb/gettyimages-1236892839.jpg#" alt="Designer John Galliano and Anna Wintour " height="413" width="620" class=" lazyload" srcset="https://assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/08/31/0f9d1f7e-887f-435c-9ce8-0138ba8a475a/thumbnail/620x413g2/7fa2352a98c5e7a52d17b9d0b6fbf2eb/gettyimages-1236892839.jpg 1x, https://assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/08/31/0f9d1f7e-887f-435c-9ce8-0138ba8a475a/thumbnail/1240x826g2/3c5c4f573dc06b434f9f399b221a138a/gettyimages-1236892839.jpg 2x" loading="lazy"></span><figcaption class="embed__caption-container"><span class="embed__caption">Designer John Galliano and Anna Wintour, longtime editor-In-chief of Vogue and chief content officer of Conde Nast, ahead of The Fashion Awards 2021 at Royal Albert Hall in London on Nov. 29, 2021.</span><span class="embed__credit">
            
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                          </span></figcaption></figure><p>Andrew Bolton, the curator in charge of The Met's Costume Institute, said, "I believe deeply in the responsibility of museums to examine difficult histories with rigor, candor, and care. I also recognize the pain and concern this exhibition has caused."</p><p>In recent weeks, opposition to the exhibit continued to grow as donors threatened to rescind gifts to the museum it if moved forward as planned, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/style/galliano-met-gala-critics.html">The New York Times</a>&nbsp;reported.&nbsp;</p><p>New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin, one of the most senior Jewish officials in city government, was among the most vocal voices against the exhibit. In a statement Monday, she said she was pleased with the Met's decision to "not honor" Galliano at its next gala.</p><p>"From the beginning, I have told them that I strongly disagreed with this decision, and at this rising time of antisemitism, it had served as a gut punch to the Jewish community. This is the correct decision, as the harm and pain this was causing was simply unacceptable," Menin said.</p><p>Galliano, who was the creative director at Dior for 15 years, helped transform the fashion house into a global powerhouse before his downfall. In 2014, he became the creative director of Maison Margiela, a post he held for a decade.</p><p>"He sort of was integral to the change and the transformation of the fashion industry, and he was also one of the final designers to sort of do innovative fashion," Lauren Sherman, a CBS News fashion contributor and Puck fashion correspondent, told "<span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/2027-met-gala-john-galliano-controversy/" target="_blank">CBS Mornings" earlier this month</a></span>. "The '90s was sort of the last time we saw anything new."</p><p>Sherman said Anna Wintour worked closely with Galliano over the last 10 years to give him a second chance in the fashion industry and help him get the job at Maison Margiela. Wintour appeared in the 2024 documentary,&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://apnews.com/article/john-galliano-fashion-documentary-fd65d674cd72c60c97ec53c0dafdc517">"High &amp; Low - John Galliano,"</a>&nbsp;that traced the story of Galliano's rise, fall and rehabilitation.</p><p>Galliano was set to become only the third living designer to be the subject of a solo show at the Met's Costume Institute.</p><p>The Met said it will announce details on a new spring Costume Institute exhibition and the 2027 Met Gala at a later date.</p>

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        <title>Imagination Library of Will County says hundreds have signed up after Dolly Parton&#039;s death</title>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 11:44:43 -0500</pubDate>
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                      <![CDATA[ <p>The Imagination Library of Will County said it's seen a huge uptick in families enrolling to get free books through the mail in the wake of Dolly Parton's death last week.</p><p><span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dolly-parton-dies-age-80-country-music-star/" target="_blank">Parton died</a></span> at the age of 80 last week after a brief battle with cancer, her family said. </p><p>Parton launched her<span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/dolly-parton-chicago-connections-straight-talk-imagination-library/" target="_blank"> Imagination Library program statewide</a></span> in Illinois in 2023. It was originally launched in 1995 by Parton's nonprofit, the Dollywood Foundation, and became the world's foremost early childhood book gifting program.</p><p>The Imagination Library of Will County said between Wednesday, when news of Parton's death broke, and Friday, more than 350 children were enrolled. The organization is now asking parents to be patient as the system manages the high level of traffic.</p><p>The Imagination Library program ensures children 5 and younger have access to books at no cost. It is active in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Ireland.&nbsp;</p>

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        <title>Lionel Messi says he is retiring from the Argentina national soccer team: &quot;I leave with the peace of mind&quot;</title>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 11:34:00 -0500</pubDate>
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                      <![CDATA[ <p>Soccer great <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/tag/lionel-messi/">Lionel Messi</a> is hanging up his boots for the Argentina national team &mdash; ending nearly two decades representing the country.</p><p>Messi played in six World Cups and led Argentina to win the tournament in 2022 in Qatar. This summer, he and the Argentina squad made it to the final, <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/2026-fifa-world-cup-final-spain-argentina-sunday/" target="_blank">losing to Spain</a></span>.</p><p>"It was a decision that hurt &mdash; and still hurts deeply &mdash; but I understand that the time has come," Messi said in an <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DctWzhYxElg/?hl=en">Instagram</a> post Monday. "I swear to you that I always gave it my all&mdash; not just in these last few years when we won everything, but before that too; I always fought and left everything on the field for this jersey, to bring you joy and make you feel proud to be Argentine through football."</p><p>The announcement comes just weeks after his <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jorge-messi-father-of-argentina-great-lionel-messi-dies-at-68/" target="_blank">father, Jorge Messi, died</a></span> on Aug. 8, at the age of 68.&nbsp;</p><p>In his post Monday, Messi explained that he wrote his retirement letter on June 21 &mdash; two days after losing the World Cup final at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.</p><p>After his father's passing, Messi said he "didn't know how to keep going. All I ever did was play soccer and now I have serious doubts about whether I'll keep doing it for much longer."</p><p>On Monday he wrote, "Today, after everything with my dad, I am even more convinced than before."</p><figure class="embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-feed_phone_image" data-ads='{"extraWordCount":50}'><span class="img embed__content "><img src="https://assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/08/31/844edc86-9d40-4c06-a2d3-b1e70a19e88e/thumbnail/620x443/753581a03793d9d00afe53738fef45de/gettyimages-2286811567.jpg#" alt="Spain v Argentina: Final - FIFA World Cup 2026 " height="443" width="620" class=" lazyload" srcset="https://assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/08/31/844edc86-9d40-4c06-a2d3-b1e70a19e88e/thumbnail/620x443/753581a03793d9d00afe53738fef45de/gettyimages-2286811567.jpg 1x, https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/08/31/844edc86-9d40-4c06-a2d3-b1e70a19e88e/thumbnail/1240x886/70f2f3dca0fc0e69f1513b86cb215557/gettyimages-2286811567.jpg 2x" loading="lazy"></span><figcaption class="embed__caption-container"><span class="embed__caption">Lionel Messi sheds tears as he watches Spanish players celebrate following the FIFA World Cup 2026 Final match on July 19, 2026.</span><span class="embed__credit">
            
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                          </span></figcaption></figure><p>The 39-year-old, who made his debut for Argentina's senior national team in 2006, thanked fans in his post on Monday.</p><p>"Thank you for all the love these past 20 years. I'm going to miss hearing you all from the inside so much. Now I'm going to be one of you, cheering and supporting you from the outside (through thick and thin, even more so)," Messi wrote.</p><p>"I leave with the peace of mind and pride of having given you &mdash; along with my teammates &mdash; moments we once only dreamed of. Experiencing this with you was incredible. I love you all," he added.</p><p>Messi currently plays club soccer for Inter Miami after 17 seasons with Barcelona FC and a brief stint with Paris Saint-Germain. In his post, Messi did not say how long he will continue to play professional soccer.</p>

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        <title>Will Harry and Meghan move to the Cotswolds?</title>
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        <title>Authorities identify 18-year-old man killed in Crest Hill, Illinois shooting; 3 other teens wounded</title>
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                      <![CDATA[ <p>The teenager killed in <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/police-investigate-shooting-crest-hill-illinois/" target="_blank">a shooting over the weekend in southwest suburban Crest Hill</a></span> has been identified as an 18-year-old man from Woodridge.</p><p>Kamarion L. Coleman was pronounced dead at 4 a.m. Sunday, according to the Will County Coroner's Office.</p><p>Police said, around 11 p.m. on Saturday, officers responded to a report of shots fired in the 1900 block of Willow Court.</p><p>When police arrived, they found four teenagers had been shot. Coleman was pronounced dead. The Will County Coroner's Office said an autopsy was conducted on Sunday, but a final cause and manner of death is awaiting further police and toxicological reports.</p><p>Another 18-year-old from Joliet was airlifted to an unspecified Chicago hospital in critical condition. A 15-year-old and a 16-year-old suffered non-life-threatening injuries.</p><p>Crest Hill police and the Will/Grundy Major Crimes Task Force were investigating.</p>

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        <title>Will County Imagination Library sees sign-up surge after Dolly Parton&#039;s death</title>
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                      <![CDATA[ The Imagination Library of Will County said it's seen a huge uptick in families enrolling to get free books through the mail in the wake of Dolly Parton's death last week. ]]>
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        <title>Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed&#039;s deleted tweets on Sept. 11 attacks invite scrutiny of past remarks</title>
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                      <![CDATA[ <p>As the nation prepares to mark 25 years since Sept. 11, 2001, <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/abdul-el-sayed-synagogue-attack-comments-apology/" target="_blank">Abdul El-Sayed</a></span>, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, may be facing the risk of renewed scrutiny and fresh political attack.</p><p>El-Sayed is a leader of a new crop of candidates from a wing of his party that opposed American wars and capitalized on anger over anti-Arab sentiment in a state with a robust and active Muslim community. But now he is attempting to adapt &mdash; and in some cases delete &mdash; past statements that may run afoul of a broad, general election audience.</p><p>As <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/abdul-el-sayed-democrats-unity-senate-race-healing-primary-haley-stevens/" target="_blank">El-Sayed heads into the fall general election campaign</a></span> against Republican Rep. Mike Rogers, El-Sayed, a former public health official, has <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/abdul-el-sayed-hasan-piker-remarks-jewish-americans/" target="_blank">already been forced to distance himself</a></span> from the views of Hasan Piker, a popular Twitch streamer who has appeared at El-Sayed's campaign events and who generated controversy for declaring that "America deserved 9/11" before later retracting the remark.</p><p>Meanwhile, El-Sayed's past references to the deadly attacks have continued to surface, including two deleted social media posts verified by CBS News that have not been previously reported. In those posts, he calls for the American public to muster the same outrage for the COVID-19 death toll that they displayed after 9/11.</p><p>In one, from April 2020, El-Sayed compared the nearly 3,000 Americans killed on Sept. 11 to the mounting COVID-19 death toll and argued for a response commensurate with the nation's post-9/11 mobilization. In another, El-Sayed wrote that because more Americans had died from COVID than in the Sept. 11 attacks, he hoped "that means we'll spend the next ten years fighting a war for public health &amp; against poverty ... like we launched a global #WaronTerror after 9/11. We could save lives rather than take them."&nbsp;</p><p>"Abdul has always unequivocally condemned terrorism and the September 11 attacks," a spokesperson for El-Sayed's campaign said in a statement to CBS News. "Mike Rogers' attempts to misrepresent Abdul's beliefs are bad-faith lies meant to mislead Michiganders."&nbsp;</p><p>In another deleted post, first reported by the Washington Free Beacon, El-Sayed wrote on Sept. 11, 2021: "Today, I mourn the 3K lives, 6K injuries, &amp; infrastructural devastation in NYC, perpetuated ignorantly in the name of my faith. Tomorrow, I'll mourn ~1M lives, millions of injuries, &amp; infrastructural devastation in 3 countries, perpetuated ignorantly in the name of my country."</p><p>El-Sayed's campaign <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/11/progressives-democrats-social-media-posts-00993111">told&nbsp;</a>Politico earlier this summer that he deleted all posts older than July 2023 "to prevent any old posts from being taken out of context." They didn't say when he deleted the posts. &nbsp;</p><p>For El-Sayed, the emergence of old social media posts could present a unique challenge, said Adrian Hemond, a bipartisan political consultant based in Lansing.&nbsp;</p><p>"El-Sayed has what I call a 'Quacks like a duck problem,'" Hemond said. "There's enough quacking going on, sort of directionally, that it has raised questions for a lot of people, and he hasn't done a very good job addressing those questions."&nbsp;</p><p>The coming anniversary will mark another chance for El-Sayed to navigate a uniquely sensitive chapter of American history in a way that reassures moderate voters without alienating the progressive activists who make up a significant part of his political coalition.&nbsp;</p><p>"I think that people underestimate how critically important the Arab vote is in Michigan," said Kristian Ramos, a Washington-based progressive strategist.</p><p>"I think that the war in Iran and everything else has scrambled a lot of people's perceptions on what is and isn't acceptable in this moment," Ramos added. "And I also think what people are missing is there's a reason that he came out of the primary the way that he did: because he was speaking to issues that resonated with Michigan primary voters who he will need to win the general."</p><p>The Sept. 11 attacks have largely served as a source of unity in American politics. The attacks killed nearly 3,000 people, launched two decades of military conflict and reshaped everything from foreign policy to airport security. For candidates seeking statewide office, even indirect references to the attacks can invite scrutiny that references to other tragedies might not.</p><p>Matt Grossmann, a political scientist at Michigan State University, said El-Sayed's deleted social media posts are unlikely to damage his campaign on their own, but they feed a narrative pushed by his opponent that he holds fringe views.&nbsp;</p><p>"Is any specific tweet going to matter for the general election? It seems unlikely," Grossmann said. "But does the general impression that he might be too extreme [...] will that make a difference? That has a bigger chance of doing so."&nbsp;</p><p>The more El-Sayed is questioned about his prior rhetoric, the less he will be able to wage successful attacks on his opponent, former Republican Rep. Mike Rogers, said Democratic strategist and CBS News contributor Joel Payne.</p><p>"He applies a kind of non-traditional voice to some of those ideas. That allowed him to stand out. That also allowed him to demonstrate his willingness to kind of break from convention," said Payne. "Right now, I think what that's created for him is that [his non-conventional voice] is what people want to talk about, as opposed to him executing an economic case against Mike Rogers."</p><p>The most acute example of this dynamic emerged when El-Sayed sought to address his association with Piker, the Twitch personality who in 2019 declared that "America deserved 9/11" before later retracting the remark. As El-Sayed campaigned alongside the streamer this spring, he was repeatedly pressed to explain the relationship. In an interview on Fox &amp; Friends in April, El-Sayed said: "Of course I don't think 9/11 was justified. Just because you appear with somebody doesn't mean you agree with them on everything."</p><p>Republicans have since sought to turn the issue into a broader test of character and judgment, arguing that El-Sayed's continued association with Piker reflects poorly on his political instincts. His opponent, Rogers, issued a statement after El-Sayed secured the Democratic nomination that falsely attributed Piker's comments to El-Sayed himself.</p><p>"I spent years hunting terrorists and bringing Osama bin Laden to justice," Rogers said. "Never in a million years did I think that I would be running against someone who believes America deserved 9/11."</p><p>Separately, El-Sayed had called the events of September 11 "craven terrorist attacks" and said they "devastated him" in his 2020 book "Healing Politics."&nbsp;</p><p>More broadly, the Sept. 11 issue fits a recurring challenge for El-Sayed's campaign. Throughout the race, he has repeatedly been pushed to explain controversial associations or comments touching on national security, foreign policy and extremism. In each case, opponents have portrayed him as outside the political mainstream, while El-Sayed has argued that critics are misrepresenting his views or taking them out of context.</p><p>The balancing act may be especially difficult in Michigan, home to one of the nation's largest Arab American and Muslim communities. Many voters in those communities remain deeply engaged in debates about the consequences of the post-9/11 era, including the wars with Iraq and Afghanistan, and surveillance programs that targeted Muslims.</p>

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        <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 11:20:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <title>Students return to Kinzie Elementary after repairs for suspected mold at Chicago public school</title>
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                      <![CDATA[ <p>Kids are now back in their classrooms at a Southwest Side elementary school after <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/john-h-kinzie-elementary-school-suspected-mold/" target="_blank">suspected mold forced them to spend the first week of classes last week at a different school.</a></span></p><p>Students returned to John H. Kinzie Elementary School on Wednesday, after crews spent last week cleaning up and tests confirmed it was safe for them to return.</p><p>Mold was found in the building ahead of the first week of school. Students either had class outside or at nearby Kennedy High School.</p><p>According to Chicago Public Schools, reports of peeling paint and possible mold in limited areas of the building were flagged earlier this month. In a statement, they said in part, "When visible mold is identified, CPS follows industry best practices and federal and local health guidelines to remediate affected areas. This process includes a professional assessment by environmental specialists, isolation of impacted spaces, and comprehensive cleaning or removal and disposal of impacted materials."</p><p>Kinzie officials said both the school's facilities team and independent environmental consultants investigated miscellaneous leaks that needed to be repaired, and tested the air quality inside the building.</p><p>In order to address the mold issues, crews removed and replaced all ceiling tiles and water-damaged plumbing insulation in affected classrooms. Crews also cleaned all affected classrooms and hallways and installed dehumidifiers and air filters in classrooms and hallways.</p><p>On Friday, <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/john-h-kinzie-elementary-school-in-chicago-to-reopen-monday-after-repairs-for-mold-concerns/" target="_blank">Kinzie officials notified parents that the school had passed all inspections</a></span> and classes would resume on Monday.</p><p>Kinzie officials will hold a meeting with parents on Tuesday to discuss the issue and the steps they took to resolve it.</p>

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                      <![CDATA[ <p>Chicago police early Monday were still searching for the person or people responsible for a&nbsp;<span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/1-killed-9-wounded-in-mass-shooting-in-chicagos-washington-park/" target="_blank">mass shooting in Washington Park.</a></span></p><p>One man was killed, and 14 others were wounded, when gunfire erupted during a large gathering on the eastern side of the park near Cottage Grove Avenue and 55th Street late Saturday night.</p><p>Cook County Crime Stoppers is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the mass shooting. But as of Monday morning, Chicago police had not announced any arrests, as detectives worked to determine who fired into the crowd.</p><p>An early police dispatch call reported four people shot, but the number of victims quickly grew.</p><p>Police said officers were already in the park trying to disperse a large gathering when the shooting happened at 11:37 p.m. Saturday.</p><p>Video showed police and paramedics helping people on the ground, and taking victims away on stretchers. The following people were struck:</p><ul><li>A      35-year-old man suffered multiple gunshot wounds throughout his body and      was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he died. He      has been identified by the Cook County Medical Examiner's office as      Rontonio M. Guterz.</li><li>A      34-year-old man was shot in the right shoulder and was taken to the      University of Chicago Medical Center in good condition.</li><li>A      39-year-old man was shot in the right leg and arm and was taken to Stroger      Hospital of Cook County in good condition.</li><li>A      40-year-old woman was shot in the right shoulder and was taken to Stroger      Hospital of Cook County in good condition.</li><li>A      45-year-old woman was shot in the left leg and self-transported to St.      Bernard Hospital in good condition.</li><li>A      26-year-old woman was shot in the chest and was taken to the University of      Chicago Medical Center in good condition.</li><li>A      42-year-old man was shot in the leg and was taken to the University of      Chicago Medical Center in good condition.</li><li>A      37-year-old woman, a 23-year-old man, and a 35-year-old man were each shot      in unspecified areas of their bodies. Their conditions and the hospitals      to which they were taken were unknown.</li><li>A      47-year-old woman was shot and taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in      serious condition, while three more women &mdash; ages 21, 23 and 43 &mdash; were shot      and taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in fair condition. A      44-year-old woman was also taken to the University of Chicago Hospital in      fair condition.</li></ul><p>CBS News Chicago had the chance to speak to Ald. Jeanette Taylor (20th), who said people had gathered for an annual reunion of residents of the Robart Taylor Homes public housing development, which was torn down several years ago.</p><p>"They deserve to hang out and reminisce and get to see each other, which too often they don't get to do, and you got some knucklehead who decides to shoot in the crowd," Taylor said. "It's real disheartening."</p><p>Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson also spoke about the weekend violence on Sunday.</p><p>"We have promoted over 200 detectives to solve these violent crimes, and we're making sure that we're investing in CVI, so that our community violence intervention workers can show up with these families," the mayor said.</p><p>Crime Stoppers said anyone with information can submit a tip anonymously.</p><p>On Tuesday, the community organization Acclivus will hold a free crisis resource event for the victims, their families, and others affected by the shooting.</p><p>The event runs from 2 p.m. until 6 p.m. at 54th Street and Wentworth Avenue.</p><p>Meanwhile, the Uvalde Foundation for Kids has opened its national emergency relief fund for victims and families impacted by the Washington Park shooting. People affected can request assistance by <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="mailto:youthpeacejusticefoundation@gmail.com">contacting the foundation over email</a>, or by calling 254-499-8027.</p><p>The Uvalde Foundation is also offering its own $5,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest.</p>

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                      <![CDATA[ <p>Two deaths have been confirmed and some 15 people were believed to be missing Monday morning in Grand Canyon National Park after parts of the canyon were hit by major flash floods over the weekend. The raging waters swept boulders, infrastructure and other debris into the Colorado River after a storm dropped a huge amount of precipitation in a very short period of time, officials said.</p><p>The body of a 46-year-old man was recovered Sunday evening near Crystal Rapids on the Colorado River, the National Park Service said, without providing any additional information. On Monday, the park service <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/GrandCanyonNPS/status/2094450492357185935">said</a> a second body had been recovered.</p><p>The NPS called for anyone who knew of hikers or backpackers who were in Bright Angel Canyon or the Phantom Ranch area on Saturday afternoon, when the flash floods hit, to provide information to park authorities.</p><p>"Grand Canyon National Park staff, in coordination with the Arizona Department of Public Safety, are continuing evacuation and response efforts and working to account for individuals who may have been in the affected area," NPS said in a statement.</p><p>Authorities were also searching for anyone who may have been on the North Kaibab Trail, between the trailhead and Phantom Ranch, staying at Bright Angel Campground, or traveling or staying in the area known as "the Box," north of Phantom Ranch.</p><p>Park officials told CBS News overnight that at least 15 people were still missing, though a spokesperson stressed earlier that the figure was subject to change as more information became available.</p><h2>Dozens evacuated amid "extensive damage" to infrastructure&nbsp;</h2><p>At least 62 people were evacuated from the hard-hit areas in the sprawling national park after the flooding caused significant damage, officials said.</p><p>"Nearly all footbridges spanning Bright Angel Creek were destroyed, eliminating pedestrian access across the creek," NPS said in an earlier statement.</p><p>Officials said Phantom Ranch, Bright Angel Campground, Phantom Ranch Canteen, the North Kaibab Trail, the Black and Silver bridges and traffic to the Colorado River in the area would be closed until further notice.</p><p>About half an inch to an inch of rain fell within just half an hour in the rocky area, where there's a steep drop in elevation, said National Weather Service meteorologist Justin Johndrow in Flagstaff.&nbsp;</p><figure class="embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-feed_phone_image" data-ads='{"extraWordCount":50}'><span class="img embed__content "><img src="https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/08/30/1fa0d791-c66c-4c72-b02b-6c1bb0e7cfb0/thumbnail/620x465/e1c33eed82d1fdfc91abdf9f04703298/784616986-1461257186059308-6034697784066061202-n.jpg#" alt="784616986-1461257186059308-6034697784066061202-n.jpg " height="465" width="620" class=" lazyload" srcset="https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/08/30/1fa0d791-c66c-4c72-b02b-6c1bb0e7cfb0/thumbnail/620x465/e1c33eed82d1fdfc91abdf9f04703298/784616986-1461257186059308-6034697784066061202-n.jpg 1x, https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/08/30/1fa0d791-c66c-4c72-b02b-6c1bb0e7cfb0/thumbnail/1240x930/2665c9df2cf0a4ddc739c7cde998d5a3/784616986-1461257186059308-6034697784066061202-n.jpg 2x" loading="lazy"></span><figcaption class="embed__caption-container"><span class="embed__caption">Remnants of stone bridge pylons remain along Bright Angel Creek following a flash flood that destroyed the footbridge on Aug. 29, 2026.&nbsp;</span><span class="embed__credit">
            
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                          </span></figcaption></figure><p>"Most of it ran off instantly," Johndrow told The Associated Press.</p><p>The National Park Service said the flooding caused "extensive damage to infrastructure in the inner canyon, including the Transcanyon Waterline, which supplies water from the canyon for use in the park."&nbsp;</p><p>"The waterline is currently not operational, leaving the park with limited water reserves and requiring significant water conservation measures to ensure available supplies can be maintained," NPS said. On Monday it reported that about 40% of the waterlne has been destroyed.</p><p>Phantom Ranch is a historic and extremely popular lodge close to the bottom of the Grand Canyon by Bright Angel Creek.</p><p>Park officials asked people to stay away from the closed areas and said the operator of the lodge, which is usually fully booked months in advance, will inform guests about the state of their reservations.</p><p>Grand Canyon National Park is ranked the fourth-most visited national park in the U.S., with 4,430,653 recreational visits in 2025.</p><h2>Lucky escapes: "It would have been game over" &nbsp;</h2><p>Gabe Bergemann was with his family at Phantom Ranch when he said what looked "like a whole monsoon basically hit the campground in the cabins area."</p><p>They were among about 60 people told to flee from their cabins and across a footbridge as the water rose.&nbsp;</p><p>"It was just like these brown, almost like black waters, filled with debris," he told CBS News. "On that bridge, that was when it hit &hellip; I actually became scared and I didn't know &mdash; I didn't know it was gonna happen."&nbsp;</p><figure class="embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-feed_phone_image" data-ads='{"extraWordCount":50}'><span class="img embed__content "><img src="https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/08/30/3f404c44-4b0e-408e-a4c3-69c1efd9fd7a/thumbnail/620x827/4687d899d8c3a763491fe331d0376f97/image005.jpg#" alt="Grand Canyon National Park flash flooding " height="827" width="620" srcset="https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/08/30/3f404c44-4b0e-408e-a4c3-69c1efd9fd7a/thumbnail/620x827/4687d899d8c3a763491fe331d0376f97/image005.jpg 1x, https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/08/30/3f404c44-4b0e-408e-a4c3-69c1efd9fd7a/thumbnail/1240x1654/0d01a5e58c15c109442765159e814a58/image005.jpg 2x" loading="lazy"></span><figcaption class="embed__caption-container"><span class="embed__caption">Flash flooding hit parts of Grand Canyon National Park, prompting the evacuation of dozens of people.</span><span class="embed__credit">
            
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                          </span></figcaption></figure><p>David Gregory was traveling with Bergemann's family and said the flood destroyed the footbridge only about 10 minutes after they all managed to get across. Hours later they were flown to safety by a helicopter.</p><p>If the park ranger hadn't ordered everybody to evacuate when they did, Gregory said all the campers could have been left trapped on the other side of the swollen creek.</p><p>"It was like a whirlpool in there, with all the debris circling around, cabins and other equipment from the maintenance work site," he said. "I don't think we would have made it out alive &hellip; I think it would have been game over."</p><h2>Grand Canyon weather forecast: "Raging killer currents"</h2><p>Officials also warned that additional thunderstorms and heavy rainfall are possible Sunday and Monday, which could "result in additional flash flooding, debris flows, rockfall and rapidly changing trail and river conditions."</p><p>"This is a reminder of what a dynamic and active landscape [the] Grand Canyon is," Jack Schmidt, director of the Center for Colorado River Studies at Utah State University, told AP.</p><p>A flood watch has been issued by the National Weather Service for all of northern and central Arizona through Monday evening, NWS Flagstaff said.</p><p>"Flash flooding will be possible in creeks, normally dry washes, swimming holes, and over recently burned areas," the NWS alert said. "Raging killer currents will be possible in side canyons and narrow slot canyons. Low-water crossings may be flooded."</p><p>Showers and thunderstorms are also expected through Monday. The area's already-saturated soils and "deep monsoonal moisture" increase the risk of flash flooding, according to forecasters.</p><p>The monsoon, or rainy season, can make the Grand Canyon a dangerous place to visit in the summer, as it increases the risks of flash flooding. Even clear days can suddenly produce thunderstorms and downpours.</p><p>There were three initial waves of rain that "primed the drainages and already had creeks flowing at minor levels" when the deadly fourth wave arrived, the weather service said in a statement.&nbsp;</p><p>Forecasters were also concerned about additional flash flooding from rain that fell on part of the Dragon Bravo fire scar, a huge burn area caused by a wildfire in July 2025.</p>

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                      <![CDATA[ <p>Former pitcher Jon Lester, catcher Jody Davis, and broadcaster Vince Lloyd were all inducted into the Cubs Hall of Fame over the weekend.</p><p>Each represents a different era of Cubs baseball, appropriately as the team celebrated its 150th anniversary this past weekend.</p><p>Lester, of course, was part of the 2016 Chicago Cubs team that ended a 108-year World Series victory drought.</p><p>Davis is a two-tile All Star who played 10 seasons for the Cubs in the 1980s. He helped the team end a 39-year playoff drought in 1984, as the Cubs won the National League Eastern Division Championship.</p><p>"Never in a million years did I think that I'd be sitting here next to Jody and be a part of this," Lester said Sunday. " You know, I don't think you necessarily play the game for these reasons, but it's nice to be recognized for, you know, what you do on the field. You know, all the fans and the players that come through there, you're there for eternity &mdash; and it's a pretty cool thing."</p><p>"It's absolutely everything, you know, and thank the good Lord that He brought me to Chicago for these eight great years that I had here, and that just means everything, you know?" said Davis. "It's been a while waiting for me, and it's all I could hope for."</p><p>Lester won 19 games with a 2.44 ERA for the 2016 Cubs, and was named a National League Championship Series co-MVP that year. He went 50-19 for as a Cubs pitcher between 2016 and 218, led the NL with 18 wins in 2018, and earned two All-Star selections.</p><p>Davis hit 19 home runs and drove in 94 runs for the Cubs in 1984. He averaged 145 games caught from 1983 to 1986, and won the Gold Glove Award in 1986 &mdash; leading NL catchers in almost every defensive category.</p><p>Lloyd, who died in 2003, broadcast Cubs games alongside Lou Boudreau for WGN Radio from 1965 until 1987.</p>
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        <title>Rev. Michael Pfleger returns to pulpit at Saint Sabina after being cleared of allegations</title>
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                      <![CDATA[ <p><span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/father-michael-pfleger-reinstated-st-sabina/" target="_blank">The Rev. Michael Pfleger</a></span> presided over Sunday services this past weekend for the first time since the Archdiocese of Chicago reinstated him at Saint Sabina Parish in the Auburn Gresham community.</p><p>"First let me just say I love you St. Sabina," Pfleger said at the Sunday mass. "I'm excited, and I'm nervous, but I'm back." </p><p>&nbsp;Last month, Pfleger was removed from ministry and sent to live away from the parish after he was accused of&nbsp;<span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/father-michael-pfleger-alleged-sexual-abuse/" target="_blank">sexual abuse of a minor more than 30 years ago</a></span>.</p><p>The archdiocese last week sent a letter to Saint Sabina saying Pfleger had been cleared of the allegation by the review board.</p><p>Pfleger said the latest allegation was an attack by those attempting to get money from the Archdiocese and to silence him.&nbsp;</p><p>Pfleger has been accused of <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/father-michael-pfleger-sex-abuse-allegation/" target="_blank">sexual abuse</a></span> in <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/archdiocese-sexual-abuse-allegation-father-michael-pfleger/" target="_blank">the past</a></span>, and has been cleared of all of them.</p>

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        <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 07:46:36 -0500</pubDate>
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                      <![CDATA[ <p>A round of storms blew through the Chicago area as commuters headed to work Monday morning.</p><p>The storms brought heavy rain and thunder and lightning to parts of the area, and prompted two separate ground stops at O'Hare International Airport.</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/essentials/n95-like-masks-for-kids/">Flights at O'Hare</a> were also delayed 42 minutes on Monday due to the storms.</p><p>The storms Monday morning did not prompt any severe weather watches or warnings.</p><p>Highs will be in the upper 80s on Monday, followed by the 90s Tuesday and Wednesday. The sticky air mass will make it feel like we are in the 100-to-105-degree range Tuesday and Wednesday.</p><p>Since it will be so hot and humid, chances for rain and storms can be expected pretty much each and every day this week.</p>
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        <title>Last day coming for Brookfield Zoo electronics drive to support gorilla conservation</title>
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                      <![CDATA[ <p>The last day is coming soon for <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="/essentials/n95-like-masks-for-kids/">Brookfield Zoo</a>'s old electronics drive to help gorillas.</p><p>Brookfield Zoo Chicago is collecting cellphones, iPads, and other used small electronics to be recycled until Tuesday.</p><p>The effort is part of the Gorillas on the Line Recycling Challenge, with Brookfield Zoo being one of the 20 zoos participating.</p><p>The recycled electronics are used to raise funds for gorilla conservation, and reduce demand for mined resources found in Central Africa.</p><p>Over the past seven years, zoos that are part of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums have collected tens of thousands of electronic devices.</p>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The last day is coming soon for Brookfield Zoo's old electronics drive to help gorillas. ]]></description>
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                      <![CDATA[ The last day is coming soon for Brookfield Zoo’s old electronics drive to help gorillas. ]]>
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        <title>Burglars take ATM from Shell gas station in Chicago&#039;s Irving Park neighborhood</title>
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                      <![CDATA[ <p>An overnight burglary left a huge mess in Chicago's Irving Park neighborhood early Monday.</p><p>Police said at 4:51 a.m., someone reversed a gray sport-utility vehicle into the side of a gas station in the 4000 block of West Irving Park Road, near Pulaski Road.</p><p>Multiple burglars entered, and they took the ATM, police said. They loaded the ATM into the rear of a black sport-utility vehicle, and left, police said.</p><p>A big pile of debris and cinder blocks was left behind at the scene, along with the gray Jeep used for the crash-and-grab.</p><p>No injuries were reported, and no one was reported in custody Monday morning. Grand Central Area detectives were investigating.</p>
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        <title>Man, 57, stabbed in fight in Chicago&#039;s Fuller Park neighborhood</title>
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                      <![CDATA[ <p>A man was stabbed in a fight with another man he knew in Chicago's Fuller Park neighborhood early Monday morning.</p><p>At 12:26 a.m., the 57-year-old victim got involved in the fight with the attacker in the 200 block of West 46th Place, near Wells Street, police said.</p><p>The victim suffered a puncture wound to the chest and was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in fair condition, police said.</p><p>The alleged attacker fled the scene, but was found a short time afterward and placed into custody, police said.</p><p>The incident was described as domestic in nature. Charges were pending Monday morning.</p>
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        <title>Google updates maps to show &quot;Lake America&quot; in U.S. after Trump executive order directing name change</title>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:30:04 -0500</pubDate>
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                      <![CDATA[ <p><em>Washington &mdash; </em>Google announced on Saturday that it had begun rolling out changes to how its maps display Lake Ontario's name, after President Trump signed an executive order changing it to "Lake America" amid a trade fight between the U.S. and Canada.&nbsp;</p><p>The president <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-executive-order-lake-ontario-lake-america/">signed an executive order</a></span> last week to rename the lake, which sits between Canada's most populous province, Ontario, and New York state. The move came after he had <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-lake-ontario-lake-america-canada-trade/">threatened the change</a></span> earlier in the week as tense trade dynamics between the historically allied countries came to a head. &nbsp;</p><p>People in the U.S. will see "Lake America" on their maps, while in Canada, they will see "Lake Ontario," Google <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/maps/gnis-lake-ontario-lake-america-name-change/">said</a> in a statement on Saturday. Beyond the U.S. and Canada, people will see both names displayed on their map, with "Lake America" appearing in parentheses.&nbsp;</p><p>"These updates follow our long-standing policy for bodies of water with names that vary from country to country, and are starting to roll out now," Google said.&nbsp;</p><p>The U.S. and Canada have been locked in a tense trade fight in recent weeks after negotiators failed to reach an agreement to end the standoff. Earlier this month, the U.S. began imposing 50% tariffs on hundreds of Canadian goods, prompting Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to announce that Canada will begin imposing matching tariffs of up to 50% on billions of dollars of U.S. goods next month.&nbsp;</p><p>With his executive order, which came after the president sparred with Ontario's Premier Doug Ford, Mr. Trump directed Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to update the Geographic Names Information System, which works with the U.S. Board on Geographic Names to standardize geographic names for federal use. Google cited the formal name change under the GNIS, noting that its maps are updated "to reflect name changes in official government sources."</p><p>The change comes after Mr. Trump also changed the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" earlier in his term, which was likewise applied to federal references, while other nations aren't required to recognize the name.</p><p>White House Communications Director Steven Cheung celebrated the name change on Sunday in a post on X, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/StevenCheung47/status/2094025164866383979">saying</a>, "It's official! LAKE AMERICA on Google Maps."</p><p>New York Gov. Kathy Hochul <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/GovKathyHochul/status/2093064058589086181">said</a>&nbsp;after the president signed the executive order last week, "New York won't be calling it that."&nbsp;<br><br>Mr. Trump took aim at Canada on the trade front in a Truth Social <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117185823993660126">post</a> on Sunday, claiming its leaders have been "ripping us off for decades, and it's going to stop."<br><br>"This should have happened long ago with other Presidents, just as stopping Iran should have happened long ago," the president said. "They want to be treated like a State, but they aren't one. I deal with the Leadership of many Countries, but I find Canada to be the worst. They are entitled no longer!"</p>

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        <title>Nepal flood death toll reaches 800, with more than 3,000 missing, as poor weather hampers rescues</title>
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                      <![CDATA[ <p>The death toll from <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nepal-flash-flood-tourists-missing-including-americans/" target="_blank">Wednesday's devastating flash floods</a></span> in Nepal and along the border with China has risen to 800, with around 3,000 people still <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nepal-flood-rescues-deaths-hope-alive-but-fading-4200-people-missing/" target="_blank">missing</a></span>, as <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-couple-survive-nepal-glacier-flood/" target="_blank">rescue operations</a></span> entered their fourth day.</p><p>Nepal's disaster agency said Sunday the death toll had climbed to 788 with 2,502 missing, while Chinese authorities reported 16 deaths and 546 missing on the Chinese side of the border.</p><p>Poor weather and challenging terrain have hampered aerial rescue operations.</p><p>In Nuwakot, one of the Nepali districts devastated by the floods, helicopters resumed operations before noon Saturday after poor weather temporarily obstructed their activities. Some helicopters were loaded with boxes and bags of aid, including clothes, instant noodles, crackers and rice. Others returned from the flood-hit areas carrying survivors.</p><figure class="embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-feed_phone_image" data-ads='{"extraWordCount":50}'><span class="img embed__content "><img src="https://assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/08/29/bfeb1896-a2f2-475d-8d79-fdd786b519a1/thumbnail/620x349/bc8b356aa706e185ae977afc95e4c676/gettyimages-2292434414.jpg#" alt="Nepal Flash Flood Leaves Hundreds Missing in Himalayan Border District " height="349" width="620" class=" lazyload" srcset="https://assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/08/29/bfeb1896-a2f2-475d-8d79-fdd786b519a1/thumbnail/620x349/bc8b356aa706e185ae977afc95e4c676/gettyimages-2292434414.jpg 1x, https://assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/08/29/bfeb1896-a2f2-475d-8d79-fdd786b519a1/thumbnail/1240x698/63808f377df56f573bb09b4dc52ffdf5/gettyimages-2292434414.jpg 2x" loading="lazy"></span><figcaption class="embed__caption-container"><span class="embed__caption">An aerial view shows debris and mud covering settlements following flash floods on Aug. 28, 2026, in DevGhat village, Nepal.</span><span class="embed__credit">
            
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                          </span></figcaption></figure><p>Families of the missing have been waiting for news of loved ones outside an army camp near Nuwakot. </p><p>A Nepali Army official told CBS News that its search and rescue helicopters could do a combined 15 trips an hour back and forth into the disaster zone, for a total of about 500 trips per day. Each flight is bringing in a handful of people, some carried out by stretcher.&nbsp;</p><p>More than 3,700 people have been rescued in Nepal so far, according to authorities there. <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nepal-flood-american-man-missing-family-desperate-for-info/" target="_blank">Hundreds of the missing</a></span> are foreigners who were in the area to work, trek or make a pilgrimage to a sacred peak on the Tibet side of the border.</p><p>Amid the frantic search for survivors, Nepal issued a warned Sunday morning local time of further rising flood waters.</p><p>"We have received information that the flood flow in the Bhotekoshi River in Rasuwa has increased further," the country's National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority said in an alert obtained by Agence France-Presse. </p><p>"Therefore, all personnel engaged in search, rescue, and relief operations, those in riverside areas, and everyone else in affected areas including Rasuwa, Nuwakot, Dhading, and Chitwan are requested to exercise caution."</p><p>The U.S. State Department, meanwhile, said in a <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/statedept/status/2093819305934692763?s=46">social media post</a> Saturday that it was providing more than $3.6 million in humanitarian aid to Nepal, which would include three months of emergency food assistance designed to help up to 10,000 households.&nbsp;</p><h2>Authorities search for dozens trapped in tunnels&nbsp;</h2><p>Nepal's government says more than 100 workers may still be alive and trapped inside tunnels at hydropower projects, with rescue efforts focused on the Trishuli 3A and 3B sites. Initial reports suggested the 100 trapped were in a single location, but Energy Minister Biraj Bhakta Shrestha said "rescue efforts are going on in multiple tunnel sites." Rescuers managed to reach some people with helicopter baskets and ropes, but struggled with 4 to 5 feet of mud and limited landing sites, Brig. Gen. Raja Ram Basnet said.&nbsp;</p><p>On Saturday, rescuers broke through the mud at Trishuli 3A. They were able to begin sending air into the tunnel, and excavation efforts are underway, Nepali Home Minister Sudan Gurung. The Ministry of Energy reported efforts to send a camera into the tunnel have begun.&nbsp;</p><p>Specialized Indian and Chinese tunnel-rescue teams have joined the effort to free the trapped workers. India has extensive experience with difficult Himalayan tunnel rescues, including teams of "rat-hole" miners skilled in being able to crawl into narrow spaces. Nepal's expert mountain rescue teams &mdash; used to aiding climbers on the world's highest peaks, including Everest &mdash; are also joining the search for the missing.&nbsp;</p><p>Photographs shared by Nepal's disaster office showed workers wading through churned mud and navigating vast boulders left by the floods.</p><p>Priti Kharel said she believes her brother Milan is one of those trapped. He works as an engineering geologist at Doosan Enerbility, and his family has not heard from him since the floods. Kharel said friends who were at the site told her family that Milan might still be there.&nbsp;</p><p>"It's already four days," Kharel said. "We want the government to rescue him as soon as possible."</p><figure class="embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-feed_phone_image" data-ads='{"extraWordCount":50}'><span class="img embed__content "><img src="https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/08/29/fa95f85d-2d21-47c4-8663-2984cb58d40d/thumbnail/620x413/023812f7cb9e5f1b26887d124cffe908/ap26241161720130.jpg#" alt="Nepal Flash Floods " height="413" width="620" class=" lazyload" srcset="https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/08/29/fa95f85d-2d21-47c4-8663-2984cb58d40d/thumbnail/620x413/023812f7cb9e5f1b26887d124cffe908/ap26241161720130.jpg 1x, https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/08/29/fa95f85d-2d21-47c4-8663-2984cb58d40d/thumbnail/1240x826/5f949fb3c81d75a3485209d8a1b5b509/ap26241161720130.jpg 2x" loading="lazy"></span><figcaption class="embed__caption-container"><span class="embed__caption">A woman walks through mud and debris left behind by flash flooding in Nepal's Nuwakot district, Saturday, Aug. 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)</span><span class="embed__credit">
            
                Rajesh Kumar Singh

                          </span></figcaption></figure><p>Nepalese Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal said locating those still missing is "currently our national priority." He said Nepal's government has sought specialized support from neighbors for tunnel rescue, survivor-detection technology, rapid forensic and DNA analysis, and morgue refrigerators.</p><p>Khanal said an 11-member tunnel rescue reconnaissance team from India has been deployed, while a similar rescue team from China is expected shortly, he added.</p><h2>Families search for information</h2><p>At relief centers, families are waiting anxiously for news of their loved ones as the death toll and the number of those missing continue to rise. Others scour hospitals and paper lists for any signs of hope.&nbsp;</p><p>In Kathmandu, Nepal's capital, relatives and friends gathered outside the main government hospital from early morning, desperately searching for news of missing loved ones. Many shuffled between the help desk and the hospital notice board, clutching photographs and scanning injured patients' lists in the hope of finding them.</p><p>Families covered hospital walls with posters showing missing relatives, photographs and contact numbers in a desperate appeal for any clue that could bring them home. Nearby were photographs of unidentified bodies that officials put up in hopes families or friends could recognize them.</p><p>Gajendra Rawat, a security official at the hospital help desk, said families had so far registered around 1,600 missing persons since the disaster struck.</p><p>"People are coming from all parts of Nepal," he said.</p><figure class="embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-feed_phone_image" data-ads='{"extraWordCount":50}'><span class="img embed__content "><img src="https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/08/29/7f647955-fb1c-43db-9a06-bffe03406821/thumbnail/620x413/be78a83adbc97bda3e23f106048beb31/ap26241298155448.jpg#" alt="APTOPIX Nepal Flash Floods " height="413" width="620" class=" lazyload" srcset="https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/08/29/7f647955-fb1c-43db-9a06-bffe03406821/thumbnail/620x413/be78a83adbc97bda3e23f106048beb31/ap26241298155448.jpg 1x, https://assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/08/29/7f647955-fb1c-43db-9a06-bffe03406821/thumbnail/1240x826/4c21853e3a3df8ff1e1b81d5bbfab470/ap26241298155448.jpg 2x" loading="lazy"></span><figcaption class="embed__caption-container"><span class="embed__caption">Residents carry their belongings salvaged from their damaged homes filled with mud and debris in Devighat, in Nepal's Nuwakot district, Saturday, Aug. 29, 2026, following the Aug. 26 flash floods. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)</span><span class="embed__credit">
            
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                          </span></figcaption></figure><p>Dil Maya Lama stood weeping outside the help desk at the hospital, searching for information about her missing 26-year-old brother, a driver for a hydropower company in Rasuwa. She had traveled from Ramechhap, about 80 miles away.</p><p>"I came here with the hope that I might find him," she said. "There is no information about him."</p><p>Nelza Moktan anxiously sought information about her missing cousin, who also worked as a driver in Rasuwa.</p><p>"I feel hopeless. It has already been four days," she said.</p><p>Back in Nuwakot, military personnel taped sheets of paper listing dozens of missing people to a wall at a relief center, prompting families to crowd around them. Some scanned lists of the missing and dead, took photos and wiped away tears. Rajesh Kumar Ram, who is searching for his son, desperately searched a list for his son's name.</p><p>"I'm hopeful, by chance, that my son is somewhere," he said, crying as he spoke. "Maybe they find him stuck somewhere. I'm waiting for that moment only."</p><p>The Red Cross said Friday that some 90,000 people had likely been impacted by the flooding. Khanal said Nepal has received over 57 metric tons of relief supplies from India, with additional aid arriving from China, Japan, Australia and other countries. Khanal added that further support will be sought as needs assessments continue.</p><figure class="embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-feed_phone_image" data-ads='{"extraWordCount":50}'><span class="img embed__content "><img src="https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/08/29/e89b893c-7566-447b-bdd3-f441cd3694e1/thumbnail/620x413/0dc9deca01f88126a52a803acd29d713/ap26241174947703.jpg#" alt="China Nepal Flash Floods " height="413" width="620" class=" lazyload" srcset="https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/08/29/e89b893c-7566-447b-bdd3-f441cd3694e1/thumbnail/620x413/0dc9deca01f88126a52a803acd29d713/ap26241174947703.jpg 1x, https://assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/08/29/e89b893c-7566-447b-bdd3-f441cd3694e1/thumbnail/1240x826/c917c24ed40187596c9145171fcee5c4/ap26241174947703.jpg 2x" loading="lazy"></span><figcaption class="embed__caption-container"><span class="embed__caption">In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, rescuers carry out search and rescue operations at the mudslide-hit area in Gyirong County, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region on Saturday, Aug. 29, 2026. (Zheng Lijun/Xinhua via AP)</span><span class="embed__credit">
            
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                          </span></figcaption></figure><h2>Authorities wary of further flood risk&nbsp;</h2><p>Rescuers have been on high alert for more flooding from a new lake that formed high up in the Himalayan mountains after the initial floods on Wednesday. Experts warned that the lake, created after the glacier collapse that triggered the floods, was starting to overflow.&nbsp;</p><p>Basnet said rescue teams had been forced to relocate temporarily when authorities issued warnings about possible further flooding.</p><p>Monitoring data from the Chinese Ministry of Water Resources showed late Friday that the lake had dwindled in size. The water level dropped by 32 feet from its high point on Thursday morning, Chinese broadcaster CCTV said.</p><p>Scientists said satellite images indicated that the initial flooding was caused when bedrock underneath a glacier high in the Himalayan region had collapsed, taking part of the glacier with it. The rockfall was so extreme that it registered as a magnitude 5.2 seismic event. The rocks and melted water suddenly swelled the rivers in the valleys below, causing torrents of water that swept buildings, bridges and earth downstream in Tibet and Nepal.</p><p>Jakob Steiner, a geoscientist at the University of Graz in Austria who is currently based in Bangladesh, said "a lower part of a glacier has really come off."</p><figure class="embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-feed_phone_image" data-ads='{"extraWordCount":50}'><span class="img embed__content "><img src="https://assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/08/27/cdd4df18-8d2c-4f2a-8fe9-7466e78542ef/thumbnail/620x776/d7a123e57a967b3e8148689b107184a1/gettyimages-2291717533.jpg#" alt="Satellite images show a valley of the Langtang Lirung mountain peak in Nepal on June 25, 2026, and Aug. 26, 2026, when devastating flooding struck the country. " height="776" width="620" srcset="https://assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/08/27/cdd4df18-8d2c-4f2a-8fe9-7466e78542ef/thumbnail/620x776/d7a123e57a967b3e8148689b107184a1/gettyimages-2291717533.jpg 1x, https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/08/27/cdd4df18-8d2c-4f2a-8fe9-7466e78542ef/thumbnail/1240x1552/e74b07be8a138e761f36ea19dbb85124/gettyimages-2291717533.jpg 2x" loading="lazy"></span><figcaption class="embed__caption-container"><span class="embed__caption">Satellite images show a valley of the Langtang Lirung mountain peak in Nepal on June 25, 2026, and Aug. 26, 2026, when devastating flooding struck the country.</span><span class="embed__credit">
            
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                          </span></figcaption></figure><p>The Hindu Kush Himalayan region is&nbsp;<span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nepal-flood-glacier-risks-warming-himalayas/" target="_blank">warming rapidly</a></span>, driving major changes in glaciers, snow cover, permafrost and mountain slopes, according to climate scientists. Around 78% of the glacier area, located between about 14,760 and 19,685 feet above sea level, is highly exposed to warming.</p><p>"What happened yesterday is unfortunately the new normal. It's going to get worse from here onwards," Steiner said.</p><p>Khanal said in a statement obtained by AFP that he spoke by phone his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, and both agreed to increase the sharing of "real-time hydrological data." </p><p>Wang, in a Chinese foreign ministry statement obtained by AFP, said Beijing had "shared crucial information with Nepal, including disaster area imagery, satellite and hydrological data, as well as early warnings about upstream barrier lakes."</p><p>Wang added that "China and Nepal are bound by mountains and rivers, sharing a common destiny."</p><p>Khanal earlier told reporters that Nepal needed greater research to "understand the changing dynamics of the Himalayan ecosystem," and the risks they pose to the landlocked country, encircled by India and China, AFP reported.&nbsp;</p><h2>Americans among the missing</h2><p>Five Americans have made their way to safety, and around 90 are among those unaccounted for, the U.S. State Department said Friday.&nbsp;</p><p>In a statement, the U.S. Embassy in Nepal&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/usembassynepal/status/2093324948387528810?s=46">said</a>&nbsp;the U.S. was "delivering a range of supplies requested by the Government of Nepal and is working with Nepal to ensure that assistance reaches the people who need it."&nbsp;</p><p>"Catholic Relief Services, working through implementing partner Caritas Nepal, will deliver more than 2.5 metric tons of food supplies, 500 blankets, 500 mosquito nets, and 500 insulating foam sheets for temporary shelter flooring to two school locations in Rasuwa," the embassy said, noting plans for subsequent supply shipments were already in place.</p><p>Twenty-two people from the U.S. were among the 80 who went missing from a pilgrimage run by the Isha Foundation, a volunteer-run group that promotes well-being founded by Indian spiritual leader Sadhguru Vasudev.</p><p>"At this point we are awaiting word," community liaison Leslie Crespi said in a phone interview from McMinnville, Tennessee, of the missing pilgrims. "We have done as much outreach as we can through the State Department, through the embassy."</p><p>The 22 missing Americans were all adults, and included 13 women and nine men, the foundation later said in data it provided to CBS News. She said the Isha Foundation has organized pilgrimages for 21 years, and "in those 21 years, we have never lost a life."&nbsp;</p><p>U.S. citizen Deepak Dandu said his wife, Sridevi Vejella, was among those missing in Nepal. She was on the pilgrimage with the Isha Foundation to Mount Kailash in Tibet &mdash; a sacred site for Hindus, Buddhists and others &mdash; which he said was a "lifelong dream" for her.&nbsp;</p><figure class="embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-feed_phone_image" data-ads='{"extraWordCount":50}'><span class="img embed__content "><img src="https://assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/08/29/4c4715ef-7223-46f2-ba8e-2fbe4f216fab/thumbnail/620x413/c78be85dd48233c3ec003a676ec2a056/gettyimages-2291841060.jpg#" alt="Nepal flash floods death toll rises to 538, over 1,200 missing " height="413" width="620" class=" lazyload" srcset="https://assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/08/29/4c4715ef-7223-46f2-ba8e-2fbe4f216fab/thumbnail/620x413/c78be85dd48233c3ec003a676ec2a056/gettyimages-2291841060.jpg 1x, https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/08/29/4c4715ef-7223-46f2-ba8e-2fbe4f216fab/thumbnail/1240x826/cfb33ed67a8bf44b28fc2ba677dcbcd5/gettyimages-2291841060.jpg 2x" loading="lazy"></span><figcaption class="embed__caption-container"><span class="embed__caption">Extensive destruction and debris deposits along the Trishuli River corridor following a catastrophic outburst flood and debris flow in Bidur, Nuwakot district, Nepal, on Aug. 28, 2026.</span><span class="embed__credit">
            
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                          </span></figcaption></figure><p>He told CBS News she was crossing from China into Nepal when the flood hit. The foundation told him she was part of a group that was present at the Gyirong Port immigration complex.</p><p>President Trump called the flooding terrible to see on Thursday, saying that "strong, well-built buildings were wiped out like they were toothpicks."</p><p>He told reporters in the Oval Office that U.S. officials had spoken with Nepalese leaders and offered to provide "anything they want."</p>

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                      <![CDATA[ <p><em>Washington</em> &mdash; Far-right political commentator and deportation advocate <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/milo-yiannopoulos-deported-us-immigration-arrest-dhs/" target="_blank">Milo Yiannopoulos</a></span> is currently in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody facing a final order of removal, according to U.S. officials and agency records.&nbsp;</p><p>Yiannopoulos, who is British, was apprehended in the New Orleans area and is being held in a Louisiana ICE holding facility, the U.S. officials said. A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said Yiannopoulos came to the U.S. legally in 2019 but "chose to overstay his welcome in violation of our nation's laws."&nbsp;</p><p>The DHS spokesperson said Yiannopoulos was given a final order of removal by an immigration judge on July 22, after failing to show for his immigration hearing. DHS said he will remain in ICE custody pending removal.&nbsp;</p><figure class="embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-left embed--size-feed_phone_image" data-ads='{"extraWordCount":50}'><span class="img embed__content "><img src="https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/08/28/9f7a7b26-6cad-4d11-9812-1a71f0416368/thumbnail/620x687/16b1017a009faa50c842fb0d97fb7a71/hq1aa0bw4aamjfi.jpg#" alt="hq1aa0bw4aamjfi.jpg " height="687" width="620" srcset="https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/08/28/9f7a7b26-6cad-4d11-9812-1a71f0416368/thumbnail/620x687/16b1017a009faa50c842fb0d97fb7a71/hq1aa0bw4aamjfi.jpg 1x, https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/08/28/9f7a7b26-6cad-4d11-9812-1a71f0416368/thumbnail/1240x1374/b2f960e46146c74be41d735c8a38b673/hq1aa0bw4aamjfi.jpg 2x" loading="lazy"></span><figcaption class="embed__caption-container"><span class="embed__caption">A photo of Milo Yiannopoulos shared by the Department of Homeland Security on Aug. 27, 2026.</span><span class="embed__credit">
            
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                          </span></figcaption></figure><p>Reports indicate Yiannopoulos was in New Orleans ahead of a concert where the artist formerly known as Kanye West was scheduled to perform Friday night. <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.tmz.com/2026/08/28/milo-yiannopoulos-detained-ice/">TMZ</a> first reported Yiannopoulos' status. Yiannopoulos has done work for the political and corporate ambitions of West, who's now known as Ye.</p><p>"Being in detention is a choice," the DHS spokesperson said. "We encourage all illegal aliens to take control of their departure with the CBP Home App. The United States is offering illegal aliens $3,000 and a free flight to self-deport now."</p><p>Yiannopoulos, who was <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/twitter-suspends-conservative-breitbart-writer-milo-yiannopoulos/" target="_blank">banned from Twitter</a></span> for several years for hateful attacks against comedian Leslie Jones, has been a supporter of ICE's immigration enforcement efforts in the past.</p><p>"California needs ICE checkpoints at supermarket entrances, gas stations, strip malls, intersections and government buildings, with on the spot deportation for anyone who can't prove they are in the US legally," he posted <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/Nero/status/1931672838748143729">on social media</a> in June 2025.</p><p>"Total legal immunity for ICE agents when they're on duty," he <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/Nero/status/1971632319145623606">wrote</a> in September 2025.</p><p>"There is one concrete thing we must insist on this administration delivering," he wrote in June 2025. "It matters a lot more than debts measured in imaginary money. We have got to deport millions and millions of people. Without that, nothing else matters."</p>

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